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Frances Hodgson Burnett : The Secret Garden (Collins Classics)
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Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Title: The Secret Garden (Collins Classics)
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Published in: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Date: 2010-04-01
ISBN: 0007351062
Publisher: William Collins
Latest: 2023/06/23
Weight: 0.2 pounds
Size: 4.25 x 0.75 x 7.0 inches
Edition: Reprint
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Previous givers: 2 Hans (Netherlands), Haley (Singapore)
Previous moochers: 2 Nicole BV (Norway), Betsy (United Kingdom)
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'Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.'

Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant's brother begins her adventure and it is through their friendship and her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself. Their lives all begin to change when a Robin shows Mary the door to a mysterious secret garden.


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Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up garden captures their imaginations and puts the blush of a wild rose in their cheeks; "It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of roses which were so thick, that they matted together.... 'No wonder it is still,' Mary whispered. 'I am the first person who has spoken here for ten years.'" As new life sprouts from the earth, Mary and Colin's sour natures begin to sweeten. For anyone who has ever felt afraid to live and love, The Secret Garden's portrayal of reawakening spirits will thrill and rejuvenate. Frances Hodgson Burnett creates characters so strong and distinct, young readers continue to identify with them even 85 years after they were conceived. (Ages 9 to 12)

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